Digestive Health

A healthy gastrointestinal system is important for good digestion and for the health of the entire body. Often chronic digestive concerns arise from the inability to properly digest foods (e.g. from lack of stomach acid or digestive enzymes), consuming foods that trigger inflammation within the gastrointestinal tract, imbalances of intestinal bacteria, or stress.

At Juniper Family Health, our naturopathic doctors listen carefully to your concerns, perform an abdominal exam, and suggest laboratory testing if needed, in order to discover the root cause of your digestive symptoms. Naturopathic treatment plans are personalized based on your needs, and focus on restoring a healthy gut with treatments such as therapeutic diets, herbal medicines, nutritional supplementation, and prescription medication. For more complex digestive illnesses such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, an integrative approach is taken combining naturopathic medicine with conventional medicine. In these cases, our naturopaths work collaboratively with other health care providers and specialists.